refreshed - Story 111705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office smelled fresher, the stale coffee barely noticeable. Thomas practically skipped down the hallway, the usual weight on his shoulders lifted. He found himself whistling a tune, something he hadn't done in years. His senses were heightened.

He spotted Olivia, who seemed overwhelmed with a mountain of files. "Let me help you with those," he offered, grabbing a stack.

Olivia's eyes widened. "Thomas? That’s… surprisingly nice of you."

He just shrugged. "The day seems more vibrant somehow. You ever go to Camp Willow Creek, Olivia? I always felt like I knew you."

Olivia gasped. "Willow Creek? It was the best summer of my life! Wait, did you ever go canoeing?"

Thomas grinned. "That was my favorite thing to do there. I was a really terrible camper, but it still made me happy."

Emotion: refreshed

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.31 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.10

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion refreshed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 refreshed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the refreshed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the refreshed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.998
`de`	0.703
`!).`	0.384
`(!)`	0.381
`!".`	0.379

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.782
`C`	-0.478
`L`	-0.414
`😣`	-0.388
`😞`	-0.376